secretary boomer: mark. and, mr. speaker, he is the last person to turn in a speaker card on this item. chair nolan: sir? >> i have a couple of comments to make. on the legal residency requirement, i am wondering if there will be an investigation in questioning into people's residency. there is tremendous concern of their among the drivers about the electronic waybill. believe me, it is out there. i would really like to see some very, very stringent policies in place about access to the information. otherwise, it may well be up for grabs, and i am not confident from what we have here that there is going to be limited access. vehicles, easing the vehicle age requirements, it is really something that is going to benefit the low and companies and hurt the companies that try to provide better quality vehicles -- it is going to benefit the low-end companies. the two items that need to be manually entered on the electronic waybills are things that are equipment and to electronically in automatically, so i am wondering what

secretary boomer: coming back into open session. if we can come back to the service standards, with consent, we will ask for this. secretary boomer: item 15. >> members of the board, some of this money is federal funds, nearly $1 billion. we are required to demonstrate that all funding sources are identified and committed before we can request and receive an agreement from the federal transit administration. there also two transportation funding sources. this includes weihl bonds -- high-speed rail bonds, and infrastructure bonds to close the gap. the prop 1b funding includes an allocation. it also includes to wonder $25.50 million from the -- it also includes $225.50 million. it also includes millions for a state transportation improvement program allocated through the san francisco county transportation authority to the project. the state funds will be available to the project when they are included in the state budget and when the state moves forward with issuing debt. therefore, the actual timing of the receipt of the state fund

that's when the tail end of boomers will reach 65. bernice is in good health, embracing the next phase of life, along with millions of others. seth done, cbs news, new york. >>> it's a girl. the first bay area baby to be born in the new year delivered. azaria born at summit medical center, weighing 4 pounds, 5 ounces. doctors say she is in good health despite being born a few weeks early. >> i didn't believe it. it was hike she can't be the first baby. but she was the first one. >> yes, she is. the baby's mom says she chose the name azaria, because it means help from god, and haiti means female battle warrior. a beautiful name for a beautiful baby. >> 2011 looks a lot like 2010, wet and rainy. >> yeah, wet, rainy and cold. >>> doppler radar has been picking up on some of the activity already. you have chilly temperatures, the precipitation, and it continues all around the bay area. right now, heaviest in the north bay with some good cells making their way in through the bay, down along the peninsula and more to come tonight. chilly in

boomer. secretary boomer: the executive director's report. director ford: we look forward to working with you in the future, so welcome aboard. the first item i need to bring before you is regarding our state budget and its impact on b.p. -- on the mta budget. jerry brown proposed his new budget, which talk about fiscal year 2011-2012. they were facing an 18-month shortfall, and this proposed a wide range of spending cuts as well as extendingthe tax increases that are set to expire. as it relates to transportation, the proposal includes a reauthorization of last year's gas tax in order to protect funding sources for highways, local streets, and roads, and for transit. the gas tax must be approved and renewed by two-thirds of the vote due to the proposition 26. the package includes provisions to have bonded debt service and funding for the state transportation attempt and the state assistance program. under the proposed budget, $329 million, which would mean an estimated $30 million for the sfmta. it also includes more in bond appropriations.

secretary boomer: [reading names] chair nolan: mr. schneider. good afternoon. >> good afternoon, members of the board. a good afternoon to the new member of the board, leona bridges, and good luck with your tenure here in relation to the public interest. the ramifications. about one year has passed since there was an attack on state street, and recently, on january 7 at 3:00 in the morning, there was an incident, where the driver was punched out. i did not get the full results of this from talking to the officer at the police department, but the purpose of the petition that i will present to you today, although i did not get quite as many signatures as i wanted, i am a little lazy, will serve as a comprehensive omnibus scheme for the protection of the safety and well-being of cabdrivers and so forth. why today? it has been about a year, and there is some movement, as the deputy director indicated, that some of this might be done technology wise, but what i am asking is that the sfmta and the deputy director schedule a meeting for all drivers. we

that's one boomer every eight seconds, turning 65. the number, coming in the next year, 2.8 million baby boomers who will turn that mark. in the time it takes you to watch this next report from john donvan, in fact, that would mean another 15 of those boomer s having a birthday. here's john. >> reporter: first came optimism then came the babies. >> the torch has been passed. >> reporter: then -- 65 years went by. >> between the amount of money that's coming in -- >> reporter: bringing us to this day we have fretted about -- >> will only get worse as the baby boomers age. >> reporter: for some time, really. >> a lot of baby boomers. >> reporter: really some time. >> when the baby boomers retire. >> reporter: well, when is now. actually tomorrow. because the boomer generation, that huge reproductive uptick, 1946 to '64, that gave us 76 million new americans, its first members turn 65 tomorrow, january 1st, retirement age. social security and medicare age. so, happy birthday, because we know what that means. 76 million more to come with

boomer women flood the workforce for the first time. and now that 10,000 of them are turning 65 every day, they're set to overwhelm the health care system, too. >> i don't know how we're going to sustain the system. >> reporter: dr. camilo echanique already works 60 hours a week and sees about 20 patients a day. >> bring your arm up here. >> reporter: that's common in an industry severely short of primary care physicians. he estimates over the next 10 years, there may be 40,000 fewer doctors than needed. >> i don't see that we're going to be able to capable to take care of all of these patients that are coming into the system. >> reporter: 50% of boomers have some chronic disease like diabetes and with thousands of them now eligible for medicare, health care costs are expected to skyrocket. the price tag is estimated to grow from $500 billion a year today to $929 billion by 2030. that's when the tail end boomers will reach 65. >> go ahead, jane. >> reporter: for now, kirschling is in good health and embracing the next phase of life. alo

boomer? >> he's not coming back. there's no way. after all the stuff that he went through this year both on the field and off the field, i think it's time to hang them up, and peter knows this, i have great respect for brett the football player. the fact that he would show up every single game in the first game that he actually played in the nfl, he replaced don mckoswki against my cincinnati bengals back in 1992 and led them to a fourth quarter comeback. the next game he start against the pittsburgh steelers and didn't miss a game until this season. that, i take my hat off to and give him great respect. >> rose: was it hard to leave? >> you know, it all depends on what you're leaving. if you're leaving $20 million behind, yeah, it's hard to leave. if you're leaving the cincinnati bengals and they're paying you half a million dollars it's not hard to say good-bye. >> rose: i need to understand-- >> charlie, the -- >> yes? >> charlie, the two guys who hurt brett farve this year, one from the buffalo bills and one for the chicago bear

have baby boomers taking care of older baby boomers. it's a very, very big group. it's going to be a very diverse group. >> woodruff: nick eberstadt, put this in some context. what does this mean for the work force overall? >> well, the united states is older than it's ever been before. but we're going to see a fundamental, dramatic push towards further aging over the next 20 years. think of it like this. over the next 20 years, the u.s. population may grow by about 60 million, a little over 60 million. half of that growth will be people over the age of 65. we're going to have a population explosion but it's going to be an explosion of senior citizens. that's going to mean that the ratio of potential workers to potential retirees is going to change really fundamentally. right now it's about 5 to 1. 20 years from now it will be around 3 to 1. >> woodruff: ted fishman, how well prepared is the rest of society to care for all these boomers getting older? >> we're not prepared right now. we're in a bit of a panic. i'm going around the count

secretary boomer: we are going back to item 14. >> we're going to recall a person. you are going to use that mike over there. secretary boomer: you just have to start talking. >> i am with analysis and reporting in the technology division. today, i will be presenting the highlights for the fiscal year 2011 service standards, so we're talking about july through september 2010. and, as always, we begin with on-time performance. on-time performance dropped slightly in the first quarter, to 70%. -- 17%. the five lines with the greatest room for improvement included the 91 owl and some express. on-time performance increased 72.7%. i just want to put some of these numbers into context. we're talking about some of our busiest corridors, the mission corridor being one of them. this month, we're talking about several in 14. we're talking about a 74.7 on time percentage, and the geary, 71.9% on-time performance. a number of these were sent in september. this is something to keep in mind. -- a number of these were done in september. this is well below the peak. we also saw on

secretary boomer: howard wong, and he is our last speaker. chair nolan: good afternoon, mr. wong. >> the central subway's state and local funding would go along way in saving and fixing the muni system which is crumbling before our very eyes. the rail, the train derailments that the balboa maintenance facility in station, the central computer system breakdowns, trains that have gone off track, it breaks have failed. we know that from your own reports that the $2 billion of deferred infrastructure over many years are catching up. infrastructure problems are happening now come in the years in between this and the projected opening of the central subatomic if it is built. when it is built, what do we have? we have a system that does not solve the transit problems of that 1.7-mile stretch. we have in the eir projections about a decrease in service availability, something in the range of 76,000 miles per year carry it -- per year. there has been no consistency in projections of what the central subway will offer, but looking at the tracks themselves, looking at the physical layou

seth doane on what boomers tu do to >>> the first of the baby boomers will reach a milestone birthdayn what boomers turning 65 could do to the nations health care system. >> reporter: kathleen is a retired teacher, a grandmother, and one of the very first baby boomers. she was born just after midnight on january 1st, 1946 one of three and a half million americans born that year. >> it is a full time job to stay healthy. >> reporter: today she turns 65. an age typically linked with retirement, medicare eligibility or just plain growing old. >> too many of my fellow boomers are getting sick, going through cancer. >> reporter: time is starting to catch up to the generation that brought more than peace and love to the world. when they went to school they over crowded classrooms, boomer women flooded the work force for the first time. and now that 10,000 of them are turning 65, every day, they are set to overwhelm the health care system too >> i don't know how we will sustain the system. >> reporter: he already works 6 to hours a -- 60 hours and week and sees 20 patients a day that is comm

they are part of the baby boomer generation. those who have grown-up together are growing old together. as erika edwards reports, millions of them are expected to face a heart-breaking and costly disease, alzheimer's. >> reporter: these are the years many baby boomers are thinking about retirement. grandchildren, maybe a few rounds of golf here and there. but millions will spend their twilight years suffering from alzheimer's disease. slowly but surely losing the ability to remember and recognize their family. >> alzheimer's is ultimately fatal after progressively taking away everything that an individual knows as themselves. >> reporter: harry johns is president of the alzheimer's association what has released a new report on the mind-robbing disease. while 5 million americans have already been diagnosed that number is expected to rise dramatically. >> me if we can't get a change, we'll go as high as $16 million. and that's 10 million baby boomers who will have the disease. >> reporter: some studies suggest daily exercise, a he

. >>> the first of tens of millions of baby boomers are hitting retirement age this year just as the new congress begins to discuss plans to reduce taxes and cut spending. casey steegal look at how that might affect the economy. >> the first baby boomer were born between 1956 and 1984. some experts say that could drain our economy. >> with 75 million baby boomers, who is going to pay for that? that will increase the amount of financial burden on medicare. >> the amount of taxes that workers pay in do not cover the amount of benefits that are doled out. and on top of it now we are going to see medicare recipients increase almost double over the next 20 years due to all of the baby boomers turning 65. >> medicare currently covers 46 million people costing about $500 billion a year. in about 20 years, more than 80 million will be eligible for the coverage. and that is raising concerns the healthcare program could go bankrupt. a devastating blow to baby boomers who have paid into the system during their entire working ves. >> i really expect that taxes will increase for future americans.

secretary boomer: you have one speaker. >> yes, i have concerns about the turnaround because i do not take those lines, but i have been turned around midday, and it has really inconvenienced me, because i was on my way to a meeting, and i think one of the ways to do this is to get more coaches. now, the curse of newsom is gone. you do not have to take orders from room 200 anymore. i think this would be the best way of doing it. you have to operate within your budgetary restraints. you should not be taking orders from rome to a hundred. and i think more coaches are desperately needed right now. and there are not enough resources. that includes drivers and coaches. chair nolan: next item? secretary boomer: there is no one else and has indicated wanting to address your under the executive director's report. with the on to item number eight, this is the citizens' advisory council report. chair nolan: good afternoon. >> good afternoon, mr. chairman. i am the chairman of the citizens' advisory can counsel. -- advisory council. i welcome to director -- our welcome to director bridges, in an

hundreds of billions of dollars out of medicaid, social security and medicare at a time the baby boomer general riggs ration is

baby boomers will have to face a costly disease, alzheimer's. here's erica edwards reporting on how a generation is preparing for battle. >> reporter: they're thinking about retirement, grandchildren, maybe a few rounds of golf here and there. but millions will spend their twilight years suffering from alzheimer's disease, slowly but surely losing their ability to remember or recognize their families. >> alzheimer's is ultimately fatal after progressively taking away everything that an individual knows as themselves. >> harry johns is president of the alzheimer's association which has released a new report on the mind robbing disease. it finds while more than 5 million americans have already been nighed, that number is expected to rise dramatically. if we can't get it changed it will go as high as 16 million by the end of the century. that's 10 million baby boomers who will have the disease. >> some studies have suggested daily exercise, a healthy diet and a continuing education might help protect the brain in old age, but there's no proven meth

we'll preview it for them, coming up. >> i'm a boomer, you're a boomer. are you a boomer?heart of boomland. let's go inside, ann curry is at the news desk with a check of the news. >> thanks, good morning, everybody. in the news, a top u.s. naval commander is under investigation because of an offensive video he appeared in more than four years ago. shot and shown aboard the "u.s.s. enterprise" nuclear aircraft carrier. the video features captain owen honors, who at the time was the ship's second in command. he's since been promoted to commander. the video was meant to boost more rail while the ship was in a war zone but the navy now says the video is not appropriate. >>> more than nine years after the september 11th attacks, first responders who were sickened at ground zero will have new federal health benefits. president obama signed the 9/11 health bill on sunday in hawaii as he was wrapping up his vacation. he returns tomorrow to washington, where republicans with more power in the new congress are vowing to repeal health care reforms and limit federal spending. >>> new

starting this year, more than 100,000 baby boomers a day are turning 65 years old. currently about five million people in the u.s. suffer from alzheimer's. the symptoms of menopause could mean a lower risk for breast cancer. new research from fred hutchison cancer research center says women who have hot flashes and other symptoms of menopause may have a 50% lower risk of developing breast cancer than those who never get symptoms. women going through menopause can also develop insomnia and night sweats. and running injuries in children are on the rise. a new 14-year study from nationwide children's hospital reports a 34% increase in the number of kids who visit the emergency room for running- related injuries. about 16,000 kids are treated every year. younger kids are more likely to get hurt while running at school while adolescents are more likely to be injured at sports or recreation facilities. those are some of today's top health stories. i'm betty nguyen, cbs 5. >>> another mystery about the piano. it was hauled away last night but not by the people who put it t

to deal not only with young people, adolescents and young adults, but you're now dealing with baby boomers who are entering a seniority. that is an important part. and then when you look at it from a cultural point of view, particularly in cultures where age commands respect, the person who has the alcohol or drug problem is in a conundrum. because they are an elder, if you're dealing with a tribal context, they are someone who is experienced or who is seen by younger people as a person of great respect, and yet they are struggling with their own alcohol and drug problem. when we're talking about at-risk behavior, we know that it exists among the- and is prevalent among the general population. but when it comes to special populations, it's almost something that people really don't stop to address as much. you know because it's- there's a certain amount- and particularly you mentioned the seniors, there's a certain amount of more freedom now to start dating again, and so i suspect that there's a lot of hiv worries. because hiv, even though we think that it's been taken care of, i think it's